Chartres Bibliothèque municipale 620

Manuscript
Reference Number	Fr43
Location	Chartres, Médiathèque L'Apostrophe
Siglum/Shelfmark	620 (formerly 0261)
Page/Folio range	19-44
Standardised title of narrative	Sept Sages de Rome
Incipit or textual title	Seigneur, dist il, dites moi auquel de vous je bailleré mon enfant pour apprendre et pour endoctriner? » Li ainn[e]z palla avant
Version (siglum)	C (Sept Sages de Rome)
└ Language Group within Version	French Version C
└ Narrative/Scholarly Group within Version
└ Further scholarly subgroup (1)
└ Further scholarly subgroup (2)
Translated/adapted from (Version/Text)
Source for information on textual relationship to broader tradition	Speer & Foehr-Janssens (2017), Speer (1981)
Scribe
Author
Place of Manuscript Production
Date of Manuscript Production	1275 - 1325
Source of date Manuscript Production	Arlima: https://arlima.net/no/3626
Material	Parchment
Language of Manuscript	Old French
Regional or specific Language of Manuscript
Source for regional or specific Language of Manuscript
Prose or Verse
Other texts in the Manuscript	2r - 17v: Livre de moralités 19 - 43: Sept sages de Rome 47 - 54: Anonyme, Vie de sainte Marguerite 55 - 120: Herman de Valenciennes, Roman de Dieu et de sa mere 120r - 121rb: Gautier de Coinci, Prière de Théophile 121 - 124: Prière à Notre Dame 124v - 125: Prière à Notre Dame 124 - 127: Clerc de Vaudois, Dit du droit 128v - 128v: Pater noster 136r - 136v: Auberee 136v-149r: Isopet de Chartres
Script style/form
Total pages/folios in Manuscript	149
Height	167
Width	120
Illustrations	No
Digitisation	https://arca.irht.cnrs.fr/ark:/63955/md4302873f0b
Modern Editions	Speer, Le Roman des Sept Sages de Rome (1989), Speer and Foehr-Janssens, Le Roman des Sept Sages de Rome (2017)
Catalogue
Modern Research Literature	Paris (1876), Misrahi (1933), Speer & Foehr-Janssens (2017), Speer (1981), Speer (1987), Speer (1989), Speer (1994), Foehr-Janssens (1994), Foehr-Janssens (1997), Uhlig and Foehr-Janssens (2014), Smith (1912)

Pattern of embedded stories in this manuscript

Short Story	Sequence Number	Narrator	Name Variations
Arbor	1	Empress
Canis	2	Bancillas	Baucillas
Aper	3	Empress
Medicus	4	Auguste	Augustus
Gaza	5	Empress
Puteus	6
Senescalcus	7	Empress
Tentamina	8

The Chartres 620 MS was unfortunately lost in WWII. It was partially photographed prior to this distruction, but primarily the second half. This is noteworthy, because the text existed in two parts: folios 19-26 in prose, through to the opening of Tentamina, and then folios 27-44 in rhymed verse. Only one image of the first (prose) half of the text (folio 26) survives.

According to Speer (1981) and Speer and Foehr-Janssens (2017), despite the fact that the two halves of the text are copied in different hands and styles, there is sufficient fluidity between them to consider them an intentional continuation and whole, rather than discrete fragments.